It’s time for your daily round of Wordle hints, expertly crafted to help you keep your streak going even on the toughest of days.
You might think that you don’t need any clues for Wordle today, but remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Below, you’ll find a selection of Wordle hints to guide you in the right direction. You don’t have to use them all, but there are five in total should you need them, covering vowels, starting letter, ending letter and more. And if you don’t have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too.
Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.
SPOILER WARNING: Wordle hints and today’s answer are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His Wordle streak just reached the 500 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #712) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has one vowel*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Wordle hints (game #712) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is J.
J is the least common letter overall in Wordle, but is only the fourth least likely starting letter. That’s because it begins 20 out of the 27 answers it appears in (Y, Z and X are all less common starting letters).
Wordle hints (game #712) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There is one repeated letter in today’s Wordle.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.
Wordle hints (game #712) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #712) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #712.
- Today’s Wordle answer is flashy.
If you just want to know today’s Wordle answer now, simply scroll down – but I’d always recommend trying to solve it on your own first. We’ve got lots of Wordle tips and tricks to help you, including a guide to the best Wordle start words.
If you don’t want to know today’s answer then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE IT IS PRINTED BELOW. So don’t say you weren’t warned!
Today’s Wordle answer (game #712)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #712) is… JAZZY.
Oh boy.
A little over one month ago, we had what was at the time the most difficult Wordle answer of the year so far. JOKER was the answer to game #675 on April 25, and as proof of its difficulty it achieved an average score of 5.4 from WordleBot, the NYT’s ever-helpful AI tool.
Well, JAZZY warrants an average of 5.5. That places it below only PARER (a stupidly difficult 6.3) in the all-time list, or at least the all-time-list-of-those-games-where-I-have-recorded-the-average, which stands at around 250.
And it’s not hard to see why. It begins with a J, the least common of all letters in Wordle, and it also contains a Z, the fourth least common. And of course, there’s the fact that the Z is also repeated, just to make things even more complicated.
But that’s not even the half of it, because today’s Wordle also qualifies as one of those too-many-answers puzzles that so regularly cause problems for us dedicated Wordlers. Plus, there are a multitude of answers that have the format -A–Y, and most of them seem to use different consonants from each other.
To pluck a few at random: BAGGY (contains a B and G), WACKY (W, C, K), HAPPY (H and P), MAMMY (M), DADDY (D), FANCY (F, N, C), JAZZY (J and Z), LANKY (L, N, K), VAMPY (V, M, P), RASPY (R, S, P), TATTY (T) and YAPPY (Y and P).
There, that’s 19 of the 21 consonants in the alphabet spread across just 12 possible answers, and omitting only X and Q. Good luck narrowing down all those. Oh, and there’s also a bunch that include an extra vowel, such as DAILY, MATEY, CAGEY and GAUDY. Phew!
Surely the best Wordle starting words will have helped with the challenge? Not really. All of the top choices bar one were well above 100, with SLATE (199), CRANE (188) and SLANT (269) fairly representative. The most popular pick, ADIEU, was at 352. CARTE was the only half-decent one, at 95, but that’s still pretty high.
My own selection, STARE, was no better: with just a single yellow A to go by, I still had 188 possible solutions left. My second and third guesses therefore had a lot of hard work to do, and fortunately they both proved lucky too.
My second guess was DAILY – a word which confirmed the A in position #2, confirmed that this was a Y game and ruled out the D, I and L. That cut my options from 188 to 21, which was pretty good in the context of today’s game.
Next, I played PUNCH – a word that I chose because I figured it would rule out (or in) HAPPY, PAPPY, NANNY, MANGY, WACKY, CABBY, VAMPY, HANKY, FANCY, CANNY, NANCY, NAGGY and HACKY, all of which were on my list. There were plenty of other words I could have chosen for this task (WordleBot preferred BUNCH), but the important thing was that I didn’t start guessing Y-ending words.
When all five of the letters in PUNCH stayed gray I was initially concerned – this was a late stage of the game to draw a blank. But the harder I looked, the more I realized I now only had a few options left.
My list contained six words: JAZZY, BAGGY, GAWKY, WAGGY, MAMMY and GAMMY. WordleBot said there were just four: JAZZY, BAGGY and GAWKY, plus GABBY, which I didn’t have in mine.
I ruled out GAWKY right away, as I remembered this as a past Wordle answer. In fact, I remembered it all too well, because GAWKY (game #375) was another really tough one, with an average of 5.0. So I had five to choose from. I was going to go with WAGGY, because I figured it would also help with GAMMY and BAGGY – but Wordle didn’t accept it as a guess. So that left four. I then decided that GAMMY was unlikely (too colloquial), which left me three: BAGGY, MAMMY and JAZZY.
If the choice really was between those three, then I couldn’t lose – a 6/6 would be the worst I’d score. And none offered any advantage over the others, as they didn’t have any consonants in common. So this was just a straight 1/3 chance.
I picked JAZZY purely because if I was right, it would mean I’d solved a very difficult Wordle in 4/6 and… I guessed correctly. But it could so easily have been a different story. As I said earlier: Phew!
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #711)
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #711, too.
- Wordle yesterday had three vowels.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was A.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was E.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is adaptable or flexible.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #711)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #711) was… AGILE.
This is one of those Wordles where the average score will undoubtedly have been brought down by some of the best Wordle starting words. Specifically, ADIEU – the most popular of all start words (even though it’s far from the best most days) was particularly helpful today, leaving players with just seven possible solutions after their first guess.
WordleBot’s favorite, SLATE, wasn’t too bad either: that left 19 solutions. But unfortunately for me, my choice of STARE left 46 and I was unable to solve it in fewer than four guesses.
That meant I went past the average today, which WordleBot says is at 3.8 among all those who have so far played it. But as I said, I suspect the real difficulty for most people will be higher than that, because AGILE isn’t an easy puzzle in some respects.
There’s no problem with the letters: it has three vowels, all of which are common, and starts and ends with two regular visitors to those spots. There are no repeated letters, either, and the two consonants (G and L) are both fairly common (L particularly so).
Instead, the problem is most likely one of too-many-answers; popular incorrect guesses today include the likes of ALIVE, ARISE, ALIKE and ABIDE, all of which have the same A-I-E format but with different consonants between them. Others tripped up on words such as AMPLE and APPLE.
Though not easy as such, I’m still going to berate myself for not having played today’s puzzle as well as I should have done. My second guess was the rather unusual word LAUND, which is apparently an archaic word meaning ‘open space’ but which I didn’t know beforehand. Yes, full confession: I played around with combinations of letters that I wanted to include before finding one that Wordle accepted.
Why LAUND? Well, many of the possible answers that I’d identified included some or all of L, N and D, and I also wanted to get another vowel in there. LAUND did that quite nicely, and WordleBot awarded me 91 for skill, so it wasn’t a bad guess by any measure.
It was, however, a little unlucky, as it still left me with seven possible solutions. Not that I knew that at this stage, though, as I was playing in a slightly casual manner today and didn’t bother to actually write anything down.
That directly led to a major brain-fail moment, as it contributed to me failing to spot that I’d already ruled out the N. So my third guess I went with ALONE, simply because it was the first word that I saw that I thought fit. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Fortunately, ALONE still narrowed things down a little, from seven words to just four. And, now fully aware that I had better concentrate, I decided to take things a bit more seriously. That meant calling up my Wordle notebook (on my phone), within which I keep workings for various games. That contained my notes for ABOVE (game #621, from March this year), which had the same format as today’s, ie A—E. Alongside it, I’d written a list of all the words I thought could fit, including a couple that I’d ruled out as having been past Wordle answers: APPLE and AMPLE.
All of which left me with just one possible answer: AGILE. Great! Except that my workings were not definitive; I’d missed out one other possible answer, AMBLE, so really I had a 50/50 here.
As it happened, that didn’t matter: I played AGILE next and scored a 4/6 I barely deserved.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than a year now and have tracked all of the previous answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the last 50 solutions starting with yesterday’s answer, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.
- Wordle #711, Wedneday 31 May: AGILE
- Wordle #710, Tuesday 30 May: KNEEL
- Wordle #709, Monday 29 May: MOUSE
- Wordle #708, Sunday 28 May: SKIMP
- Wordle #707, Saturday 27 May: RAMEN
- Wordle #706, Friday 26 May: SWINE
- Wordle #705, Thursday 25 May: BAGEL
- Wordle #704, Wednesday 24 May: UTTER
- Wordle #703, Tuesday 23 May: CLERK
- Wordle #702, Monday 22 May: IGLOO
- Wordle #701, Sunday 21 May: BRASH
- Wordle #700, Saturday 20 May: FLASK
- Wordle #699, Friday 19 May: GRIEF
- Wordle #698, Thursday 18 May: SHORN
- Wordle #697, Wednesday 17 May: PLANK
- Wordle #696, Tuesday 16 May: LATTE
- Wordle #695, Monday 15 May: CANOE
- Wordle #694, Sunday 14 May: SCARF
- Wordle #693, Saturday 13 May: ACRID
- Wordle #692, Friday 12 May: SNACK
- Wordle #691, Thursday 11 May: BROOM
- Wordle #690, Wednesday 10 May: ETHIC
- Wordle #689, Tuesday 9 May: COCOA
- Wordle #688, Monday 8 May: AGLOW
- Wordle #687, Sunday 7 May: GHOUL
- Wordle #686, Saturday 6 May: ANGER
- Wordle #685, Friday 5 May: BELOW
- Wordle #684, Thursday 4 May: GUPPY
- Wordle #683, Wednesday 3 May: HORDE
- Wordle #682, Tuesday 2 May: SULKY
- Wordle #681, Monday 1 May: RANGE
- Wordle #680, Sunday 30 April: PLAZA
- Wordle #679, Saturday 29 April: CEDAR
- Wordle #678, Friday 28 April: CIRCA
- Wordle #677, Thursday 27 April: LOGIC
- Wordle #676, Wednesday 26 April: METRO
- Wordle #675, Tuesday 25 April: JOKER
- Wordle #674, Monday 24 April: DITTO
- Wordle #673, Sunday 23 April: UNZIP
- Wordle #672, Saturday 22 April: BROKE
- Wordle #671, Friday 21 April: KAYAK
- Wordle #670, Thursday 20 April: PLATE
- Wordle #669, Wednesday 19 April: THUMP
- Wordle #668, Tuesday 18 April: HOUND
- Wordle #667, Monday 17 April: WHIFF
- Wordle #666, Sunday 16 April: DWELT
- Wordle #665, Saturday 15 April: AGONY
- Wordle #664, Friday 14 April: THIEF
- Wordle #663, Thursday 13 April: CARAT
What is Wordle?
If you’re on this page then you almost certainly know what Wordle is already, and indeed have probably been playing it for a while. And even if you’ve not been playing it, you must surely have heard of it by now, because it’s the viral word game phenomenon that took the world by storm last year and is still going strong in 2023.
We’ve got a full guide to the game in our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.
What is Wordle?
Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day. You get six guesses, with each one revealing a little more information. If one of the letters in your guess is in the answer and in the right place, it turns green. If it’s in the answer but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it’s not in the answer at all it turns gray. Simple, eh?
It’s played online via the Wordle website or the New York Times’ Crossword app (iOS / Android), and is entirely free.
Crucially, the answer is the same for everyone each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world, rather than just against yourself or the game. The puzzle then resets each day at midnight in your local time, giving you a new challenge, and the chance to extend your streak.
What are the Wordle rules?
The rules of Wordle are pretty straightforward, but with a couple of curveballs thrown in for good measure.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.
4. Answers are never plural.
5. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
6. Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
7. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.
8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.
9. You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.
10. All answers are drawn from Wordle’s list of 2,309 solutions. However…
11. Wordle will accept a wider pool of words as guesses – some 10,000 of them. For instance, you can guess a plural such as WORDS. It definitely won’t be right (see point 4 above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
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